Two Italian prosecutors were sent to
trial Wednesday for allegedly failing to file evidence in favour
of defendants, who were later all acquitted, in the Eni-Nigeria
'bribes' case.
Milan's assistant public prosecutor Fabio De Pasquale and the
prosecutor, now at the European Public Prosecutor's Office,
Sergio Spadaro have been remanded for trial in Brescia.
The charge against them is refusal to carry out official acts,
as they allegedly failed to file evidence in favour of the
defendants, all of whom were later definitively acquitted, in
the Eni-Nigeria trial.
The indictments were issued by Brescia's preliminary hearings
judge (GUP), Christian Colombo.
The trial will open on 16 May.
In March 2021 a Milan court acquitted Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi
and its former chief and later AC Milan President Paolo Scaroni,
of paying bribes to land the OPL 245 oil licence in Nigeria in
2011.
Eni and Shell were also acquitted.
All 15 defendants including former Nigerian oil minister Dan
Etete were also acquitted.
The trial lasted over three years.
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